<p>The X-rays will help build a lifelike 3D picture of the pliosaur predator - four times as powerful as the fearsome T-Rex.<br /><br />Its 12-inch-long bone-crunching teeth were packed into jaws with the grip of a hydraulic press - or 16,000 kilos per square inch, according to University of Southampton statement.<br />The enormous skull of the gigantic beast was painstakingly unearthed piece by piece over an eight-year-period along Britain's Jurassic Coast by fossiler Kevin Sheehan, the Daily Mail reports.<br /><br />Experts pieced it together and established it was a pliosaur, an aquatic reptile, that was 60-feet-long, weighed 12 tonnes and terrorised the oceans 150 million years ago. <br />More than twice the size of a killer whale, its eight-foot-long jaw was 4.5 times more powerful than a T-Rex and would easily swallow a human whole or bite a car in two if around today.<br /><br />Palaeontologist Richard Forrest said: "We hope that these CT scans will show the internal structure of the jaws and how they were built to withstand such incredible forces."<br /><br />Mark Mavrogordato, engineer at the University of Southampton, said: "We have to extract the most information from the fossil and we certainly don't want to destroy it, so this is really the perfect tool."<br /><br />Scientists believe the pliosaur is the top predator of all time and could "have had a T-Rex for breakfast".<br /><br />Experts unveiled the remarkable discovery last year and are now using the powerful CT scanner at the University of Southampton to penetrate deep inside the dense fossil.<br />It lived at the same time as the giant Stegosaurus, Diplodocus and Brachiosaurus.<br /></p>
<p>The X-rays will help build a lifelike 3D picture of the pliosaur predator - four times as powerful as the fearsome T-Rex.<br /><br />Its 12-inch-long bone-crunching teeth were packed into jaws with the grip of a hydraulic press - or 16,000 kilos per square inch, according to University of Southampton statement.<br />The enormous skull of the gigantic beast was painstakingly unearthed piece by piece over an eight-year-period along Britain's Jurassic Coast by fossiler Kevin Sheehan, the Daily Mail reports.<br /><br />Experts pieced it together and established it was a pliosaur, an aquatic reptile, that was 60-feet-long, weighed 12 tonnes and terrorised the oceans 150 million years ago. <br />More than twice the size of a killer whale, its eight-foot-long jaw was 4.5 times more powerful than a T-Rex and would easily swallow a human whole or bite a car in two if around today.<br /><br />Palaeontologist Richard Forrest said: "We hope that these CT scans will show the internal structure of the jaws and how they were built to withstand such incredible forces."<br /><br />Mark Mavrogordato, engineer at the University of Southampton, said: "We have to extract the most information from the fossil and we certainly don't want to destroy it, so this is really the perfect tool."<br /><br />Scientists believe the pliosaur is the top predator of all time and could "have had a T-Rex for breakfast".<br /><br />Experts unveiled the remarkable discovery last year and are now using the powerful CT scanner at the University of Southampton to penetrate deep inside the dense fossil.<br />It lived at the same time as the giant Stegosaurus, Diplodocus and Brachiosaurus.<br /></p>